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Roman - laureat Bukerovskoĭ premii 2023 goda, kotoryĭ uzhe nazyvai͡ut "irlandskim „1984"" i "novym „Rasskazom sluzhanki"". Kak pisal v svoeĭ rekomendat͡sii Bukerovskiĭ komitet, ėta "radikalʹnai͡a antiutopii͡a… i͡arko zhivopisuet reshimostʹ materi zashchititʹ svoi͡u semʹi͡u vo vremena, kogda liberalʹnai͡a demokratii͡a… neumolimo i pugai͡ushche skatyvaetsi͡a k totalitarizmu". Odnazhdy vecherom mikrobiolog Aĭlish Stėk, matʹ chetverykh deteĭ, otvechaet na stuk v dverʹ. Na poroge - dvoe operativnikov svezheobrazovannoĭ Gosudarstvennoĭ sluzhby nat͡sionalʹnoĭ bezopasnosti, kotorye khoteli by pogovoritʹ s muzhem Aĭlish, aktivistom uchitelʹskogo profsoi͡uza. A posle demonstrat͡sii protesta ee muzh propadaet - i Aĭlish okazyvaetsi͡a v plenu logiki koshmara: obshchestvennye instituty rassypai͡utsi͡a na glazakh, pravitelʹstvo prevratilo tikhiĭ prigorod v zonu boevykh deĭstviĭ, i, chtoby spasti semʹi͡u, Aĭlish vynuzhdena reshitʹsi͡a na nevozmozhnoe…"Roman-preduprezhdenie o tom, kak legko utratitʹ svobody, kotorye my schitaem samo soboĭ razumei͡ushchimisi͡a, odnako velichaĭshee dostizhenie avtora v tom, chto opisyvaemye neveroi͡atnye sobytii͡a vygli͡adi͡at absoli͡utno realʹnymi" (Sunday Independent).

The novel is the winner of the Booker Prize in 2023, which has already been called the "Irish 1984" and the "new Handmaid's Tale." As the Booker Committee wrote in its recommendation, this "radical dystopia ... vividly depicts a mother's determination to protect her family at a time when liberal democracy ... is inexorably and frighteningly sliding towards totalitarianism." One evening, microbiologist Eilish Stack, a mother of four, answers a knock on the door. On the threshold are two operatives of the newly formed State National Security Service who would like to talk to Eilish's husband, an activist of the teachers' union. And after a protest demonstration, her husband disappears, and Eilish finds herself trapped in the logic of a nightmare: public institutions are crumbling before our eyes, the government has turned a quiet suburb into a war zone, and in order to save her family, Eilish is forced to do the impossible..."The novel is a warning about how easy it is to lose the freedoms that we take for granted. obviously, however, the author's greatest achievement is that the incredible events described look absolutely real" (Sunday Independent).